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Selected US Tax Developments: Final Regulations Ease Requirements for Qualified Foreign Pension Funds 美国税收发展:最终法规放宽对合格外国养老基金的要求
Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.32721/ctj.2023.71.2.ustd
Michael J. Miller
The US Treasury department recently issued final regulations addressing the requirements for a non-US pension fund to enjoy the special tax exemption accorded to a "qualified foreign pension fund." The final regulations should be well received by non-US pension funds since they clarify and liberalize the rules previously set forth in proposed regulations issued in 2019.
美国财政部最近发布了最终规定,解决了非美国养老基金享受“合格外国养老基金”特殊免税的要求。最终的法规应该会受到非美国养老基金的欢迎,因为它们澄清并放宽了2019年发布的拟议法规中先前规定的规则。
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Canadian Tax Foundation Regional Student-Paper Awards/Prix régionaux du meilleur article par un étudiant de la Fondation canadienne de fiscalité 加拿大税务基金会区域学生论文奖/加拿大税务基金会学生最佳论文区域奖
Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.32721/ctj.2023.71.2.awards
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Corporate Minimum Tax Options 企业最低税额选择
Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.32721/ctj.2023.71.2.sym.mintz
J. Mintz, V. Venkatachalam
Canada faces a quandary. Should it adopt a corporate minimum tax under the pillar two agreement that is consistent other agreeing countries, or should it adopt a US-style corporate alternative minimum tax that is more harmonized with the minimum tax of the United States, its largest trading partner? There is no easy answer to this question. The pillar two corporate minimum tax is complex and distortionary, even though it puts a floor on tax-rate competition at 15 percent; but a made-in-Canada corporate minimum tax could reduce distortions while raising more revenue by being applied to a wider group of companies. The authors of this paper argue that Canada should take its time to see whether the US corporate alternative minimum tax qualifies as a minimum tax, giving Canada better options for a corporate tax than pillar two's global tax.
加拿大面临两难。它是应该在第二支柱协议下采用与其他达成协议的国家一致的企业最低税,还是应该采用与最大贸易伙伴美国的最低税更为协调的美国式企业替代最低税?这个问题没有简单的答案。第二支柱企业最低税是复杂和扭曲的,尽管它将税率竞争的下限设定在15%;但加拿大制造的企业最低税可以减少扭曲,同时通过适用于更广泛的公司群体来增加收入。本文的作者认为,加拿大应该花时间看看美国的企业替代最低税是否符合最低税的条件,这给加拿大提供了比第二大支柱全球税更好的公司税选择。
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Personal Tax Planning: Parameters of the New Tax-Free First Home Savings Account 个人税务筹划:新免税首置业储蓄帐户的参数
Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.32721/ctj.2023.71.2.ptp
L. Godbout, Natalie Hotte
In effect since April 1, 2023, the tax-free first home savings account (FHSA), introduced by the federal government, aims to promote the accumulation of savings for the purchase of a first home. Considering the legislative provisions, the authors of this article detail the parameters of the FHSA and highlight its particularities in comparison with the parameters of other existing savings vehicles, including the tax-free savings account and the registered retirement savings plan.
自2023年4月1日起,联邦政府推出免税首套房储蓄账户(FHSA),旨在促进首套房购买储蓄的积累。考虑到立法规定,本文作者详细介绍了FHSA的参数,并强调了其与其他现有储蓄工具(包括免税储蓄账户和注册退休储蓄计划)参数相比的特殊性。
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MNEs' Incentives Under a Global Minimum Tax Based on Accounting Standards 基于会计准则的全球最低税率下跨国公司的激励
Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.32721/ctj.2023.71.2.sym.mawani
Amin Mawani
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has proposed a pillar two global minimum tax (GMT) for which the tax base is the jurisdiction-specific effective tax rate (ETR), an accounting metric calculated under the rules of accrual accounting. History has shown that when tax is imposed on accounting numbers, taxpayers often use the discretion available in accounting to manage their tax liability. This paper argues that the discretion that multinational enterprises (MNEs) can exercise within accounting rules to change their ETRs will be limited because increasing ETR (to reduce GMT) also reduces accounting income, which in turn could impose higher financial reporting costs on firms. Financial reporting costs are the costs to firms of reporting lower accounting income, and could include higher borrowing costs or more restrictive covenants imposed by lenders. Firms generally prefer to report sustainable net incomes with a steady growth rate to impress their capital market stakeholders. Lower sustainable accounting income can also adversely impact a firm's stock price through the price-earnings ratio. While planning opportunities available to MNEs to avoid the GMT are not limited to shifting accounting profits across jurisdictions, the alternative of shifting factors of production is likely to be more complex and more expensive to implement, and is likely to remove some of the first-order income tax savings from locating intangible factors of production in low-tax jurisdictions. Avoiding GMT at the affiliate level by inflating ETRs could therefore conflict with firms' overarching objectives of maximizing reported earnings and stock prices. These objectives are also currently aligned with established executive compensation structures that motivate management to increase firms' stock prices.
经济合作与发展组织(oecd)提出了第二支柱全球最低税(GMT),其税基是特定司法管辖区的有效税率(ETR),这是一种根据权责发生制会计规则计算的会计指标。历史表明,当对会计数字征税时,纳税人通常会利用会计方面的自由裁量权来管理他们的纳税义务。本文认为,跨国企业(MNEs)可以在会计规则范围内行使自由裁量权来改变其ETR将是有限的,因为增加ETR(以减少GMT)也会减少会计收入,这反过来可能会给公司带来更高的财务报告成本。财务报告成本是企业报告较低会计收入的成本,可能包括较高的借贷成本或贷款人施加的更严格的契约。为了给资本市场的利益相关者留下深刻印象,公司通常更愿意报告具有稳定增长率的可持续净收入。较低的可持续会计收入也可以通过市盈率对公司的股票价格产生不利影响。虽然跨国公司避免GMT的规划机会并不局限于跨司法管辖区转移会计利润,但转移生产要素的替代方案可能更复杂,实施起来也更昂贵,而且可能会因为将无形生产要素定位在低税收司法管辖区而取消一些一级所得税节省。因此,通过膨胀ETRs来避免子公司层面的GMT可能与公司最大化报告收益和股价的总体目标相冲突。这些目标目前也与激励管理层提高公司股价的既定高管薪酬结构保持一致。
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Policy Forum: Non-Fungible Tokens and Their Income Tax Treatment 政策论坛:不可替代代币及其所得税处理
Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI: 10.32721/ctj.2023.71.1.pf.gheorghiu
L. Gheorghiu
This article explores the legal and tax landscape applicable to non-fungible tokens (NFTs)—first, by providing a working definition of an NFT and explaining how NFTs work from a technical perspective, with real-world examples; and second, by exploring the unique income tax issues raised by NFTs as a class of cryptoassets separate from their fungible counterparts. Key features of NFTs are found to be (1) their non-fungible nature; (2) their role as a digital record of authenticity of the ownership of tangible or intangible assets, but not of the existence of the underlying assets; and (3) the ability to integrate further rights for creators, such as commission rights for each sale of the NFT by subsequent owners. The article posits that NFTs may not themselves constitute an actual property right, since the underlying assets are very rarely included in the NFT record. A working definition of an NFT is therefore proposed to be as follows: a blockchain-based record of authenticity of rights to a unique object that contains metadata about the object that it represents and a link to the location where the object or data about the object are stored. The purchase and sale of an NFT is a taxable event, whether made by the original creator (who minted the token) or a subsequent owner. The determination of whether the transaction is on income or capital account, whether the NFT is personal-use property, and whether other rules apply (for example, non-resident withholding tax rules) will depend on the exact nature of what is being sold. The determination of the source of the income and the application of treaties to exempt income is quite difficult. Also raising difficulty is the qualification of the commission that is earned on subsequent sales of the NFT.
本文探讨了适用于不可替代代币(NFT)的法律和税收环境——首先,提供了NFT的工作定义,并通过现实世界的例子从技术角度解释了NFT是如何工作的;其次,通过探索nft作为一类与可替代资产分开的加密资产所带来的独特所得税问题。nft的主要特征是:(1)它们的不可替代性;(2)它们作为有形或无形资产所有权真实性的数字记录,而不是基础资产的存在性;(3)整合创作者进一步权利的能力,例如后续所有者每次出售NFT时的佣金权。文章假设NFT本身可能不构成实际的财产权,因为基础资产很少包含在NFT记录中。因此,NFT的工作定义建议如下:基于区块链的唯一对象的权利真实性记录,该对象包含有关其所代表对象的元数据,以及指向存储对象或有关对象的数据的位置的链接。NFT的购买和销售是应纳税的事件,无论是由原始创建者(铸造代币)还是后续所有者进行的。确定交易是收入账户还是资本账户,NFT是否是个人使用财产,以及是否适用其他规则(例如,非居民预扣税规则)将取决于所售资产的确切性质。确定收入来源和适用豁免收入的条约是相当困难的。另外,NFT后续销售所得佣金的资格问题也带来了困难。
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The Revised Case of IP Regimes Under the GloBE Rules: A Canadian Perspective 环球规则下的知识产权制度修订案例:加拿大视角
Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI: 10.32721/ctj.2023.71.1.sym.latulippe
Lyne Latulippe, Christine Ally, Julie S. Gosselin
After action 5 of the base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) project identified intellectual property (IP) regimes as harmful, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) proceeded to recommend that favourable tax treatment be available only under a nexus approach. More than 25 countries now offer a form of IP regime. The introduction of the global minimum tax may limit the effectiveness of IP regimes. The impact of this tax will vary with the circumstances, however. A comprehensive examination of the optimal alignment of innovation tax incentives for multinational enterprises (MNEs) must be undertaken under the GloBE rules. In this paper, the authors begin by providing an overview of the global context of IP regime adoption, and they summarize some research findings with respect to the effectiveness of this type of preferential tax regime in achieving the objectives set by governments. Next, they present examples to illustrate, in simple terms, some of the interactions that must be considered when these regimes are being designed in a Canadian context. From the MNEs' perspective, the impact of the interaction between the GloBE rules and research and development (R & D) incentives will depend on, among other things, (1) the location of the IP income, tangible assets, and R & D activities; (2) the proportion of IP income; and (3) the possibility of leveraging the corporate structure. From a tax policy perspective, the introduction of the GloBE rules will in some cases not alter the suitability of an IP-preferential regime when the effective tax rate remains above 15 percent. When the GloBE rules apply, however, the characteristics of the tax regime—for example, IP regime tax rates, R & D incentive mechanisms, and (most of all) the additive effect of the measures (federal plus provincial measures, and R & D credits plus IP deductions)—will alter the results. From the perspective of tax competition, the opportunity to adopt an IP regime also depends on the perceived risks of losing or deterring R & D activities now that IP regimes are related to local R & D activities and are widespread. Finally, the federal-provincial context complicates the design and the deployment of a tax policy that is aimed at stimulating innovation and that will require some form of negotiation, if not cooperation, with the implementation of a global minimum tax.
在税基侵蚀和利润转移(BEPS)项目行动5认定知识产权(IP)制度有害之后,经济合作与发展组织(OECD)继续建议,只有在关联方法下才能获得优惠的税收待遇。目前有超过25个国家提供某种形式的知识产权制度。全球最低税的引入可能会限制知识产权制度的有效性。然而,这项税收的影响将因情况而异。必须根据全球税法的规定,对跨国企业创新税收激励的最佳调整进行全面审查。在本文中,作者首先概述了知识产权制度采用的全球背景,并总结了一些关于这种优惠税收制度在实现政府设定目标方面的有效性的研究成果。接下来,他们列举了一些例子,简单地说明了在加拿大的背景下设计这些制度时必须考虑的一些相互作用。从跨国公司的角度来看,GloBE规则与研发(r&d)激励机制之间相互作用的影响将取决于(1)知识产权收入、有形资产和研发活动的所在地;(2)知识产权收入占比;(3)公司结构杠杆化的可能性。从税收政策的角度来看,在某些情况下,当有效税率保持在15%以上时,采用全球规则不会改变知识产权优惠制度的适宜性。然而,当GloBE规则适用时,税收制度的特点——例如,知识产权制度税率、研发激励机制,以及(最重要的)各项措施的叠加效应(联邦加省措施,研发抵免加知识产权扣除)——将改变结果。从税收竞争的角度来看,采用知识产权制度的机会还取决于失去或阻止研发活动的感知风险,因为知识产权制度与当地的研发活动有关,并且广泛存在。最后,联邦-省的背景使旨在刺激创新的税收政策的设计和部署复杂化,这将需要某种形式的谈判,如果不是合作,以实施全球最低税。
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Policy Forum: Digital Asset Mining and GST—Tax Policy Versus Public Policy 政策论坛:数字资产开采和消费税-税收政策与公共政策
Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI: 10.32721/ctj.2023.71.1.pf.robertson
David Douglas Robertson, Selena Ing
On February 4, 2022, the Department of Finance released draft legislation that, if enacted, would deem digital asset mining activities undertaken in Canada not to be "commercial activities" for goods and services tax (GST)/harmonized sales tax (HST) purposes. In 1991, Canada introduced the GST to remove sales tax as a cost of doing business in Canada with a view to making Canada's domestically produced goods and services more competitive in international markets. Yet 30 years later, Finance is proposing legislation hidden in the "special cases" provisions of the GST legislation that will make the 5 percent to 15 percent GST/HST an input cost to Canadian digital asset miners selling their computing services to non-residents of Canada. Further, it appears that Finance is doing so with an ulterior public policy objective—to impose financial market regulation and "know-your-client" rules on mining operators. This article provides an overview of how proof-of-work cryptocurrency blockchains operate, the parties involved, how GST would normally apply to the sector and to Canadian participants in particular, and why the proposed February 4, 2022 amendments are problematic from a tax policy perspective.
2022年2月4日,财政部发布了立法草案,如果颁布,将认为在加拿大进行的数字资产挖矿活动不属于商品和服务税(GST)/协调销售税(HST)目的的“商业活动”。1991年,加拿大引入了商品及服务税,以取消在加拿大做生意的一项成本销售税,以使加拿大国内生产的商品和服务在国际市场上更具竞争力。然而,30年后,财政部提出了隐藏在GST立法“特殊情况”条款中的立法,将5%至15%的GST/HST作为加拿大数字资产矿工向非加拿大居民出售计算服务的投入成本。此外,财政部这样做似乎有一个不可告人的公共政策目标——对采矿经营者实施金融市场监管和“了解你的客户”规则。本文概述了工作量证明加密货币区块链的运作方式,所涉及的各方,商品及服务税通常如何适用于该行业,特别是加拿大参与者,以及为什么从税收政策的角度来看,2022年2月4日提出的修正案存在问题。
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Personal Tax Planning: Foreign Tax Credits for Taxpayers with Cross-Border Employment Income 个人税收筹划:具有跨境就业收入纳税人的国外税收抵免
Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI: 10.32721/ctj.2023.71.1.ptp
L. Mi, Shivani Joshi
Foreign tax credits are an important mechanism to provide relief from double taxation of foreign-source income. With respect to cross-border employment income earned by Canadian taxpayers, there are multiple issues that may create significant complexity and potentially limit the availability of foreign tax credits. In this article, the authors provide an overview of the mechanics of claiming foreign tax credits under the Canadian Income Tax Act and the relevant provisions in certain bilateral income tax treaties. They also review some relevant technical interpretations issued by the Canada Revenue Agency and legislative jurisprudence in Canada with respect to cross-border employment income sourcing and the availability of foreign tax credits on such income.
国外税收抵免是对国外来源的收入实行双重征税减免的重要机制。关于加拿大纳税人赚取的跨境就业收入,有多个问题可能会造成严重的复杂性,并可能限制外国税收抵免的可用性。在本文中,作者概述了根据加拿大所得税法和某些双边所得税协定的相关规定申请外国税收抵免的机制。它们还审查了加拿大税务局发布的一些有关技术解释和加拿大关于跨国界就业收入来源的立法判例以及对这种收入的外国税收抵免的可得性。
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Pillar Two in Canada? 加拿大的第二支柱?
Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI: 10.32721/ctj.2023.71.1.sym.introduction
Jinyan Li, J. Vidal
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